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Too often, high-quality #citizenship education depends on the commitment of individual #teachers or #schools rather than a coherent national approach. The #curriculum reforms mark a genuine turning point for the subject, says @moorsee.bsky.social @acitizenshipt.bsky.social buff.ly/wX4z94f #edusky
Citizenship education reforms: A landmark moment - SecEd
With the voting age being lowered to 16, curriculum reforms will create a coherent approach to citizenship teaching
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November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Too often, high-quality #citizenship education depends on the commitment of individual #teachers or #schools rather than a coherent national approach. The #curriculum reforms mark a genuine turning point for the subject, says @moorsee.bsky.social @acitizenshipt.bsky.social buff.ly/wX4z94f #edusky
If it works: A flexible formula for student research projects. In key stage 5, we encourage students to adopt university-style approaches to research practice. But this is not the only way. Dr Andrew K Shenton offers an alternative: buff.ly/ChPRe8c #teachers #teaching
If it works: A flexible formula for student research projects - SecEd
Advice for secondary school teachers on approaches to student research projects in the key stage 5 classroom
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November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If it works: A flexible formula for student research projects. In key stage 5, we encourage students to adopt university-style approaches to research practice. But this is not the only way. Dr Andrew K Shenton offers an alternative: buff.ly/ChPRe8c #teachers #teaching
How can we make transitions between topics in the classroom smoother? By boosting #curriculum visibility so that expectations are clear & students can focus on their learning. Katrina Quick explains how: buff.ly/ohsmN07 #teachers #teaching #education
Smoother curriculum teaching transitions to ease student overload - SecEd
Creating a curriculum that is transparent and visible to students can help them to learn more effectively
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November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
How can we make transitions between topics in the classroom smoother? By boosting #curriculum visibility so that expectations are clear & students can focus on their learning. Katrina Quick explains how: buff.ly/ohsmN07 #teachers #teaching #education
This SecEd Webinar offered practical advice for secondary #schools on how we can prepare students for a future with #ArtificialIntelligence. What skills will students need as they head to further & higher #education & into the workplace? Watch back now!
Watch back: Teaching students how to use AI to support their learning - SecEd
This free SecEd webinar offered advice on how schools can teach students to use AI to support their learning
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November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This SecEd Webinar offered practical advice for secondary #schools on how we can prepare students for a future with #ArtificialIntelligence. What skills will students need as they head to further & higher #education & into the workplace? Watch back now!
That girls outperform boys in #exams has long been a fact of our #school system & yet girls’ performance has faltered of late. Josephine Smith considers why this is & whether we should be concerned: buff.ly/JCkLhDT #teaching #schools #GCSEs
Is it time to refocus our attention on girls’ achievement in school? - SecEd
Why is girls’ performance in exams at GCSE and A level faltering, should teachers be worried and what can schools do?
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November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Almost 9 in 10 senior leaders in #schools feel stressed & many have signs of #burnout & #exhaustion. Three-quarters of #teachers are also stressed. #Education staff have lowest level of #wellbeing ever recorded in annual @edsupportuk.bsky.social #TWIX2025 research: buff.ly/oOAwHvX #edusky
Teacher Wellbeing Index: Record findings must be ‘wake-up call to government’ - SecEd
Teacher Wellbeing Index reveals three-quarters of school staff are stressed, with many risking burn-out and exhaustion
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November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Almost 9 in 10 senior leaders in #schools feel stressed & many have signs of #burnout & #exhaustion. Three-quarters of #teachers are also stressed. #Education staff have lowest level of #wellbeing ever recorded in annual @edsupportuk.bsky.social #TWIX2025 research: buff.ly/oOAwHvX #edusky
Ahead of the Schools White Paper, @thenfer.bsky.social research has revealed a worrying SEND trend that gets little policy attention: the high-SEND #schools in a system under huge strain. Matt Walker looks at the consequences of the findings: buff.ly/oYpIsFu #education #inclusion #edusky
The high-SEND schools in a system under strain - SecEd
An NFER research project reveals an uneven distribution of SEND children in England’s schools
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November 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Ahead of the Schools White Paper, @thenfer.bsky.social research has revealed a worrying SEND trend that gets little policy attention: the high-SEND #schools in a system under huge strain. Matt Walker looks at the consequences of the findings: buff.ly/oYpIsFu #education #inclusion #edusky
14 ideas for design technology lessons with environmental purpose: DT has the capacity to transform climate anxiety into environmental agency. Ed Charlwood offers 7 practical classroom strategies & 7 ways to engage students in the classroom: buff.ly/1mxPriN #teaching
Fourteen ideas for DT lessons with environmental purpose - SecEd
Fourteen ideas to help teachers create design technology lessons to engage students in climate action and environment
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November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
14 ideas for design technology lessons with environmental purpose: DT has the capacity to transform climate anxiety into environmental agency. Ed Charlwood offers 7 practical classroom strategies & 7 ways to engage students in the classroom: buff.ly/1mxPriN #teaching
What do students think about #artificialintelligence? How are young people looking at AI? How are they using it for learning? @josepicardo.bsky.social explains why banning AI in #education is simply not an option & offers 5 recommendations for #schools: buff.ly/f4Qw6hP #teaching #edusky
What students really think about artificial intelligence - SecEd
What students think about artificial intelligence use in eduction and why schools and teachers must listen
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November 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
What do students think about #artificialintelligence? How are young people looking at AI? How are they using it for learning? @josepicardo.bsky.social explains why banning AI in #education is simply not an option & offers 5 recommendations for #schools: buff.ly/f4Qw6hP #teaching #edusky
Creating a reliable year 8 diagnostic maths test as part of the #curriculum reforms is 'far from simple' & we risk creating 'more noise than clarity' for #teachers if we get it wrong. Fascinating analysis from Prof John Jerrim: buff.ly/EbhVcuo @fftedudatalab.bsky.social #edusky #schools
A considerable challenge: How to create a robust year 8 diagnostic maths test - SecEd
An assessment expert has warned that creating a robust year 8 diagnostic maths test presents a considerable challenge
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November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Creating a reliable year 8 diagnostic maths test as part of the #curriculum reforms is 'far from simple' & we risk creating 'more noise than clarity' for #teachers if we get it wrong. Fascinating analysis from Prof John Jerrim: buff.ly/EbhVcuo @fftedudatalab.bsky.social #edusky #schools
When we fail to share crucial information, children can suffer serious harm. Hannah Carter – @thehonesteducator.bsky.social – discusses how DSLs can navigate data protection & multi-agency collaboration: buff.ly/qmuF8OT (Get access to this article via the SecEd Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/I0nq3Q8)
Safeguarding information-sharing: Busting the myths - SecEd
Advice for designated safeguarding leads on effective information-sharing as part of child protection in schools
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November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
When we fail to share crucial information, children can suffer serious harm. Hannah Carter – @thehonesteducator.bsky.social – discusses how DSLs can navigate data protection & multi-agency collaboration: buff.ly/qmuF8OT (Get access to this article via the SecEd Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/I0nq3Q8)
SecEd's Safeguarding Digest platform for school #safeguarding teams offers best practice insights, #CPD including scenarios & key questions for staff, latest news, a forum for sharing knowledge & much more:
SecEd - Safeguarding Digest information
Keep your school up to date, compliant and prepared
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November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
SecEd's Safeguarding Digest platform for school #safeguarding teams offers best practice insights, #CPD including scenarios & key questions for staff, latest news, a forum for sharing knowledge & much more:
Continuing his 6-part SecEd series analysing the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, @mattbromley.bsky.social explores attendance & behaviour, helping #schools to sense-check provision & identify areas for focus: buff.ly/LA3RLUY #teaching #education #edusky
Analysing Ofsted's core evaluation areas for school inspection: Attendance and behaviour - SecEd
Analysis of how Ofsted will inspect attendance and behaviour during school inspection under the new 2025 framework
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November 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Continuing his 6-part SecEd series analysing the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, @mattbromley.bsky.social explores attendance & behaviour, helping #schools to sense-check provision & identify areas for focus: buff.ly/LA3RLUY #teaching #education #edusky
SecEd Podcast: A new episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. Advice on the 'secure fit' model, the 'expected standard', the #inclusion thread, the focus on context, the 90-minute call, the nominee role & more: buff.ly/Fhtumbi
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
SecEd Podcast: A new episode dissects the revised #Ofsted inspection framework, setting out actions #schools can take now to prepare. Advice on the 'secure fit' model, the 'expected standard', the #inclusion thread, the focus on context, the 90-minute call, the nominee role & more: buff.ly/Fhtumbi
Don't miss your SecEd Bulletin for #schools & #teachers: The edumyths debate – Three barriers to effective #homework – Analysing #Ofsted leadership evaluation area – Year 8 diagnostic maths test warning – Stark findings in Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: buff.ly/Ota8a9P #edusky #teachers
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A free 21-page SecEd guide to #teaching #oracy skills with lots of practical ideas for #schools: Defining oracy – Disciplinary oracy – Teaching vocabulary – Assessing oracy – Oracy in year 7 – A culture of oracy – Oracy & disadvantage – Case studies & more:
A SecEd best practice guide to teaching oracy in schools - SecEd
This free guide offers ideas, advice and case studies for teaching oracy skills in the secondary school classroom
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November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The law protects parents who physically punish their children, but to a point & the line is fine. Sara Alston – @seainclusion.bsky.social – on how DSLs can talk to these parents: buff.ly/8ylmJUV (Get access to this article via the SecEd Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/I0nq3Q8)
Conversations with parents about physical chastisement - SecEd
How can school safeguarding teams respond if parents are hitting their children as a form of physical punishment?
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November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The law protects parents who physically punish their children, but to a point & the line is fine. Sara Alston – @seainclusion.bsky.social – on how DSLs can talk to these parents: buff.ly/8ylmJUV (Get access to this article via the SecEd Safeguarding Digest: buff.ly/I0nq3Q8)
Eco #anxiety is a common issue & #teachers must think about how their #climate #education lessons can balance realism & hope. As #COP30 comes to a close, Helen Young considers how we can achieve this in the geography classroom: buff.ly/PNqhkft #teaching
Tackling climate anxiety: How geography can help - SecEd
Ideas for teaching climate that balance hope and realism and which avoid sparking climate anxiety in young people
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November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Eco #anxiety is a common issue & #teachers must think about how their #climate #education lessons can balance realism & hope. As #COP30 comes to a close, Helen Young considers how we can achieve this in the geography classroom: buff.ly/PNqhkft #teaching
SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf: buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky
Your complete 21-page guide to success as an early career teacher - SecEd
Teaching is tough, yet incredibly rewarding. If you are to survive and thrive as an early career teacher and set yourself up for a long and happy career then you must build healthy habits from day…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf: buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky
The arts are the heartbeat of education & placing them at the core of every school will support wellbeing, creativity, confidence & academic outcomes, says headteacher Shaun Fenton – @reigategrammar.bsky.social: buff.ly/vh85XYZ #schools #teaching #edusky
The heartbeat of education - SecEd
A plea for placing arts education at the heart of every school and how doing so will improve student outcomes
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November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The arts are the heartbeat of education & placing them at the core of every school will support wellbeing, creativity, confidence & academic outcomes, says headteacher Shaun Fenton – @reigategrammar.bsky.social: buff.ly/vh85XYZ #schools #teaching #edusky
Creating a reliable year 8 diagnostic maths test as part of the #curriculum reforms is 'far from simple' & we risk creating 'more noise than clarity' for #teachers if we get it wrong. Fascinating analysis from Prof John Jerrim: buff.ly/EbhVcuo @fftedudatalab.bsky.social #edusky #schools
A considerable challenge: How to create a robust year 8 diagnostic maths test - SecEd
An assessment expert has warned that creating a robust year 8 diagnostic maths test presents a considerable challenge
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Creating a reliable year 8 diagnostic maths test as part of the #curriculum reforms is 'far from simple' & we risk creating 'more noise than clarity' for #teachers if we get it wrong. Fascinating analysis from Prof John Jerrim: buff.ly/EbhVcuo @fftedudatalab.bsky.social #edusky #schools
Almost 9 in 10 senior leaders in #schools feel stressed & many have signs of #burnout & #exhaustion. Three-quarters of #teachers are also stressed. #Education staff have lowest level of #wellbeing ever recorded in annual @edsupportuk.bsky.social #TWIX2025 research: buff.ly/oOAwHvX #edusky
Teacher Wellbeing Index: Record findings must be ‘wake-up call to government’ - SecEd
Teacher Wellbeing Index reveals three-quarters of school staff are stressed, with many risking burn-out and exhaustion
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Almost 9 in 10 senior leaders in #schools feel stressed & many have signs of #burnout & #exhaustion. Three-quarters of #teachers are also stressed. #Education staff have lowest level of #wellbeing ever recorded in annual @edsupportuk.bsky.social #TWIX2025 research: buff.ly/oOAwHvX #edusky
#Homework reinforces inequality, adds to #teacher workload & is susceptible to student AI-use – so why do we bother? Debbie Tremble looks at three barriers to realising the potential impact of homework in secondary education: buff.ly/0yYWyxe #teaching #teachers #schools #edusky
Homework: Overcoming three barriers to success - SecEd
There are three barriers to successful homework strategies in the secondary school that teachers need to overcome
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November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
How to decide on school improvement priorities: Improvement in #schools is a balancing act & every senior leadership team needs to decide what their priorities are. @ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social set out 3 guiding principles for making these decisions: buff.ly/KP64uTL #edusky
How to decide on school improvement priorities: Three guiding principles - SecEd
Three rules to help headteachers decide on and plan school improvement priorities that will have the biggest impact
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November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
How to decide on school improvement priorities: Improvement in #schools is a balancing act & every senior leadership team needs to decide what their priorities are. @ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social set out 3 guiding principles for making these decisions: buff.ly/KP64uTL #edusky
In a 6-part series, @mattbromley.bsky.social analyses the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, helping you to sense-check your approach & identify areas requiring focus. Next up, leadership & governance: buff.ly/x68ePTp #schools #teaching #edusky
Analysing Ofsted's core evaluation areas for school inspection: Leadership and governance - SecEd
Analysis of how Ofsted will inspect leadership and governance during school inspection
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November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
In a 6-part series, @mattbromley.bsky.social analyses the 6 core evaluation areas of the new #Ofsted school inspection framework, helping you to sense-check your approach & identify areas requiring focus. Next up, leadership & governance: buff.ly/x68ePTp #schools #teaching #edusky